[Python-ideas] Automatic comparisons by default

[Facundo Batista]

Two very related proposals:

1. On "!=", if Python doesn't find __ne__, use "not __eq__()".

2. On "<=", if Python doesn't find __le__, use "__eq__() or __lt__()".
The same for ">=", of course.

Some considerations:

- You can give decorators that fill the spaces, but I think that would
be less error prone, more clean and less surprising with those rules
(specially the first one).

- If somebody wants for != not to be the opposite of ==, both methods
can be defined. The same for __le__ and __ge__.

- All that would be needed for comparisons (for those normal objects
where those rules apply) would be __le__ and __eq__, which is what you
need to replace __cmp__.

- *I* don't know if this behaviour will break something (couldn't find a case).

What do you think?

Regards,

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